$10 million donation gets kids closer to art
Walker gift supports museum field trips
Posted: September 23, 2011 at 4:56 a.m.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/RYAN MCGEENEY --09-22-2011-- Pat Walker, right, thanks a group of area schoolchildren for an elaborate card given during a press conference Thursday morning at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. The museum announced Thursday a $10 million endowment from the Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation, which will help provide funding assistance for groups that wish to visit the museum. [WOMAN TO LEFT IS PAT'S DAUGHTER, DEBBIE WALKER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE WILLARD FOUNDATION.]
In this downturned economic climate, it’s difficult for school districts to send students on day field trips to museums and other attractions.
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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 11 on 09/23/2011
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